A tire should be heavy side down on landing. Maybe self balancing, Virg
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:38:17 -0500 Joe H Horton <joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com> writes: > Guys, > If you Guys are tired of Hiccups I have a new problem that I > have > never heard anyone talk about in the KR world. About 4 1/2 hours > into the > flight to Florida a couple weeks ago I started getting a vibration. > It > would come and go at will, sometimes very light and others times > enough > to make the needles shake in the instruments. It would last from a > second > to maybe 10 seconds and only happened at airspeeds above 145 mph. > On the way home It became more often but after a while I > decided > the plane wasn't falling apart and just kept going. There were > stretches > that it didn't happen for a half hour or more. The engine was > running > flawlessly-there was absolutely no indication in the instruments. > It > feels like it is coming from the front of the plane. I checked the > cowl > and front and side wheel pants and they are all tight. There was > nothing > visible from the cockpit that was vibrating. The only other thought > that > I had was the nose wheel spinning which could be related to speed. I > know > that I didn't get real fussy with balance on the front tire when I > changed it last summer. > Any other thoughts or experiences???. > Joe Horton, Coopersburg, Pa. > joe.kr2s.buil...@juno.com > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at > http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > >
